On 11/09/2004 04:23 PM, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
Net Llama! wrote:
On 11/09/2004 03:40 PM, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
occasion to meet with John Ashcroft several times and found him to be
unflinchingly honest and have impeccable integrity. Ashcroft lost
the senate because he would not attack a recent widow, in spite of
her venom
He was losing the election before his competitor died in that plane.
It was a dead heat before Carnahan died.
Not really, but whatever, its not worth debating.
toward him in the last weeks. The John Ashcroft I know is NOTHING
like the Ashcroft scarecrow reported in the press. The media
portrait of Ashcroft is some sort of bogey man that folks should be
afraid of. That is not reality, even outside my head.
I don't know of anyone that fears him. They just detest his wanton
ability to stomp on civil liberties, while injecting religion into
government afairs.
I don't know where you formed you opinion of the man. The caricature
Being aware of what happened in this country for the past 4 years.
you are describing does not match John Ashcroft. John Ashcroft's only
visible failing that I can see is that he is a conservative.
Ultra-conservative religious zealot.
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